Ships & Modules

BECAUSE THIS THREAD IS ABOUT ISK BALANCE. (LEL)

THIS THREAD WILL NOT BE DERAILED.

THE OPINIONS OF PLEBIANS WHO DO NOT PVP, MINDLESSLY BLOB, WHO ARE BAD AT THIS GAME, WHO CANNOT FOCUS ON TOPIC, AND DONT KNOW WTF THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT WILL BE DISREGARDED.

ALLOW ME TO REMIND PEOPLE WHO CANT READ, THIS THREAD IS ABOUT A POLL. POST YOUR TEARS THERE NOT HERE.

Please learn how to PvP without using unbalanced modules. Every thing in the game has its pros and cons. Including your precious RLML. It is fine the way it is. It has a long load time just like the ASB for a reason. Show me any other weapon of that caliber that can hit frigate sized ships and project the same amount of damage at the same range. It's not out there. For a reason.

No need to vote. The votes might get one or two bored REAL PVPers and the rest will be forum warriors and trolls. CCP has the in-game data to show them what does and doesn't work. Those who know have tried to reason with you, the rest are actually out PVPing and not crying on the forums because their newest OP toy was fixed. However, don't let me stop your tears with common sense and logic. Cry on mighty warrior, cry on. \o

Sure, if we can also have blasters that morph into railguns when I feel like shooting at things that are far away. Or Hobgoblins that change into Warriors when I'm engaging a fast-moving target.

REGARDLESS, IT WILL BECOME ANOTHER PIECE OF DATA FOR CCP TO ANALYZE. AND FOR THE RECORD, IT HAS A LITTLE BIT MORE SUBSTANCE THAN WHAT PEOPLE USUALLY DO: NOTHING. OTHER THAN THAT WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF RLML PROTESTS. I THINK THIS THREAD GOT MOVED TO CAREBEAR SECTION OR SOMETHING. ALL IM GETTING IS WHINERS.

AS LONG AS THE NUMBERS OF THE POLL KEEP RISING, POPULATION INACCURACY KEEPS DECREASING.
EDIT: HEH, THAT IS THE THEORY ANYWAY.

Have you considered the option where you are wrong?

Set out last week with 4 RLML Cerbs, Rapier and Arazu in a gang with a tag along interceptor who is there to allow us to warp across grid. We ended up fighting against a gang of 15 or so varying in size from frigate to cruiser. The result was a massacre.

By the time the 4 Cerbs were empty about half the enemy fleet were a twisted pile of metal, warp across grid to not get tackled while reloading, warp back into the celestial again. The really amazing part was that the survivors stuck around for round 2.... Round 2 ended up just being free-fire because frigates don't last anywhere near long enough to call out primaries.

As a lone ship I would not use RLMLs but on a small gang scale that dps and application at the range achieved by Cerbs is nothing short of impressive, you just need a plan for what to do when your clip is running low. RLMLs are simply a weapon you need planning to use effectively rather than just being the go-to weapon for all missile platforms that can fit them.

RLML need a bit of tweaking. What bothers me just as much is that there's just no good alternative either. If you fit HAMs or HMs you will do the most horrible damage against small, fast ships. You fit RLML, you get 35 second reloads for just average damage. Rockets on the other hand are amazing. Cruiser sized weapon platforms, not so much.

Personally, I've trained up turrets instead. :P

If the rapid launchers were just too rapid at doing their jobs a better change would have been to alter the RoF hull bonuses on the Caracal and Cerb to not apply to them. Another acceptable change either by itself or with the hull bonus change would have been to decrease their capacity a bit as a more frequent 10s reload would be better than the current 35 seconds of sitting there with your thumb up your...